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Jersey Mike's latest IPO filing is turning heads for all the wrong reasons. TechCrunch took a close look at the sandwich chain's documents and found what you might not expect — AI mentions, plural. It's a small but telling sign of how thoroughly the buzzword has saturated corporate language, even when the business is, fundamentally, making subs.
Shifting to a partnership that actually involves real AI work, Anthropic and Micron have announced a strategic agreement to use Claude models in the design of high bandwidth memory, DRAM, and solid state drives built for AI workloads. It's a notable collaboration, though observers point out the deal stays curiously quiet on computational storage and processing-in-memory, two areas where the overlap would seem obvious.
And on the consumer side, iPhone users are waking up to a frustrating mystery. Reports are spreading across Reddit of a storage bug where the System Data category quietly balloons past one hundred gigabytes. Apple hasn't formally addressed it, but several workarounds are circulating that appear to bring things back under control.
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